Response 3

Abstract

My perspective on recruitment, training, and mentoring for area studies librarians is grounded in my experience with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc), a now ten year-old initiative in which I’ve been involved almost since its beginning. I was a fellow myself from 2004-2006 at Bryn Mawr College and now work closely with current fellows as one of the officers assigned to them at CLIR. Our program seeks to address a variety of issues affecting the development of leadership capacity for libraries and higher education, some of which were highlighted in the provocation statement provided for this workshop.